Michael Mann
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Watch: The Cinema of Michael Mann
Released this past Friday, Michael Mann’s Blackhat has already proven a colossal flop, which is a shame: following up on Collateral, Miami Vice and Public Enemies, it’s another never-less-than-visually-intriguing investigation of the kinds of truly new images digital cameras can produce in the guise of a cyber-hacking thriller. Go check it out while you still can. Beforehand, you may want to prep with this above-average supercut credited to one “balistik94,” which ties together Mann’s filmography in a number of different ways: dialogue that persists from one film to another (“Time is luck” as recited by both Gong Li in Miami […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jan 20, 2015 -
“He’s Like Napoleon”: Tom Noonan on Making Michael Mann’s Manhunter
With Michael Mann’s Blackhat opening this Friday, last night was an appropriate time to screen an earlier film at New York’s IFC Center. Generally noted as the first Hannibal Lector film (“Lektor” here), 1986’s Manhunter relegates Brian Cox’s (delightful, to be sure) take on the character to a handful of scenes. The bulk of the serial killer action lies with Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde, aka the “Tooth Fairy.” The imposing actor first appears with a stocking tied around his head, which doesn’t disguise his face but only makes him look more sinister. Below, the highlights of Noonan’s Q&A looking back on working with Mann and receiving the director’s […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jan 14, 2015 -
Trailer Watch: Michael Mann’s Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth
Here we have the first trailer for Michael Mann’s Blackhat, the Heat director’s first film since 2009’s lukewarmly received Public Enemies. Observe Chris Hemsworth as a hacker who enters government service to battle some really dangerous high-level computer shenanigans. The trailer plays adroitly on contemporary paranoia about the real-world fallout of technological malfeasance, and there’s gunplay galore in the director’s trademark digital-blur-at-night idiom. The vibe and visuals are very much in keeping with Mann’s 2005 update of his Miami Vice, complete with Hemsworth’s slicked-back, Colin Farrell-esque hairdo, though the music — Antony & The Johnsons covering “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” — […]
by Vadim Rizov on Sep 25, 2014 -
“BADNESS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!”
I was a big, big fan of the TV show, and I actually don’t hate this. It’s just a teaser, of course, and the AICN talkbackers are having a field day with it, saying it looks like a Bacardi ad, but, Linkin Park music and all, the vibe seems right for a 2006 update of Miami Vice directed by Michael Mann. It’s weird, though, the dozens of hours I spent watching that show seem co-opted in my head by the considerably fewer I spent playing GTA: Vice City, and it’s those scenes that I’m flashing back to as Colin Farrell […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 21, 2005
